Meaning not yet researched.
Leyton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,230 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,230 in 2010; #2,436 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Leyton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,436 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,230.
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Leyton: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,230 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 144 (2010).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Leyton, making it the 2,436th most common boys’ name of the year, down 213 places from #2,223 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 65 boys named Leyton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,230, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 144. For comparison, it was #1,449 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Leyton, making it the 4,505th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,037 places from #5,542 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 23 girls named Leyton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,505, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #6,610 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leyton in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 2,972 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,342 babies named Leyton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 790 US boys were named Leyton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Lleyton and Leaton are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Lleyton (798), Leaton (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leyton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,505 | 56 | #2,436 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,542 | 65 | #2,223 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,082 | 52 | #2,568 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,878 | 67 | #2,183 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,864 | 82 | #1,880 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,256 | 82 | #1,824 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,543 | 86 | #1,799 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,994 | 102 | #1,613 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,698 | 81 | #1,838 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,572 | 117 | #1,475 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,610 | 117 | #1,449 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,107 | 131 | #1,332 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,235 | 115 | #1,442 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,036 | 109 | #1,485 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,295 | 134 | #1,284 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,527 | 144 | #1,230 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,029 | 120 | #1,411 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,603 | 107 | #1,520 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,296 | 130 | #1,320 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,090 | 126 | #1,313 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,858 | 114 | #1,329 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,368 | 79 | #1,644 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,932 | 84 | #1,532 |
| 2002 | — | — | 74 | #1,630 |
| 2001 | — | — | 48 | #2,173 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,963 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,469 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,660 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #7,011 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,306 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,732 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,305 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,294 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,283 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,354 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,413 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).